Forests in the News©
NATIONAL NEWS
New Mexico: State Asked to Protect Pristine Waters - Roadless National Forest Streams Nominated for Outstanding National Resource Waters, Forest Guardians
Last Bite of the Biscuit - As the controversial post-fire logging project comes to an end, a look at the winners and losers, Eugene Weekly
Corvallis consultant spreading the word about 'hurricane pine' - Company seeking uses of the wood, stained blue by Gulf Coast fungus, Corvallis Gazette-Times
Turning forest slash into cash - Hewers of wood, Canadians are also learning to turn lumbering's leftovers into something almost like gold - fuel oil, The Toronto Star
Professors question forestry expert's credentials - Thomas Bonnicksen says UC Davis offered him visiting professorship, but officials say he never worked at the university, California Aggie
The wildfire victims, The Seattle Times

Cougar predation key to ecosystem health - Robert Beschta, OSU professor emeritus of forest hydrology, Oregon State University
Carbon trade 'to save' rainforest - Carbon trading can be used to protect endangered rainforests by compensating nations that avoid deforestation, BBC News
Saving the Forests, World Bank

Critics decry failure to replant, Sacramento Bee at Star Tribune
Don't just blame the bugs, Summit Daily News at Star Tribune
Greens miffed at guv's plan - Roadless forests: Huntsman is scheduled to submit a petition to the federal government next month, Salt Lake Tribune

Court orders U.S. to repay all $5.3 billion in softwood duties - Ruling won't affect newly implemented softwood settlement, Vancouver Sun
Timber accord rankles Canadian firms - Many charge that agreement to pay taxes on a sliding scale on exports to US violates free trade, Christian Science Monitor
Firefighter says set fires because he was bored - Miller is one of a lengthening list of firefighters convicted of arson in recent years, Reuters
The Post-Burning Question: Log It or Leave It? - Some say timber on charred Oregon land is essential to rebirth, but U.S. is allowing salvage, Los Angeles Times
The Costs Of Salvage Logging, Hartford Courant editorial
North Coast Acreage Protected, Los Angeles Times
Loved to death, Patriot-News
Take care of sapling , Central Chronicle
Alternative energy proponents push piñon pellets - Rep. Salazar touts resource at Avon Hotel in Silverton, Durango Herald
Biofuels shaving sawdust supplies - Biomass burning causes shortage of wood scrap for fiberboard mills, mills lose jobs - Ethanol "biorefinery" coming, Eugene Register-Guard
Is Ethanol a Pure Green Elixir?, Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment
WORLD NEWS
Logging raises concerns, Salmon Arm Observer
Invasive plants a concern, Williams Lake Tribune
Turning forest slash into cash - Hewers of wood, Canadians are also learning to turn lumbering's leftovers into something almost like gold - fuel oil, The Toronto Star
Caribou plan out, Prince George Free Press
Forestry-related deaths moving onto the highways - Increase in industrial traffic has led to road accidents, Vancouver Sun
Hewers of woe - The forestry industry commands a lot of attention for a sector that isn't that important any more, Globe and Mail

Where did all the trees vanish?, Mumbai Daily News & Analysis

Padlocked mindsets, Philippine Daily Inquirer
Monkey business, Carte Blanche

New documentary for Olak, Parksville Qualicum News
Can B.C. help save endangered caribou? - A new government strategy to restore Canada's dwindling mountain herds -- including predator control -- proves contentious, Globe and Mail
Amazon conservation efforts must come soon to save world's largest rainforest says leading scientist - Global warming could cause catastrophic die-off of Amazon rainforest by 2080, Mongabay News

Forest-Dwellers Count Cost of Borneo's Bakun Dam - Tribes find life tough as Borneo 'develops', Reuters
Farmers urged to 'plant trees' , The West Australian

Ancient trees blown up to help wildlife - Some of the oldest trees in Scotland were blown up yesterday - by conservationists, The Herald
Fury As Trees Get The Chop, Paisley Daily Express
Call to protect orchards, the apple of England's eye, The Independent (UK) at Forests.org

No relief for submerged trees?, Central Chronicle--Madhya Pradesh
More trees cut in DSB, Visayan Daily Star

UN's environmental agency warns of rising marine pollution threat from land-sources - Two thirds of the world's total sediment transport to the oceans occurs in South and East Asia. Rampant deforestation is particularly acute in Southeast Asia and studies in the Philippines and Indonesia estimate damage to coral reefs from logging-induced sedimentation greatly exceeds the economic benefits of logging, UN News

Turmoil in paradise - Australia deeply worried about clear fell logging of vast areas of forest in countries such as PNG and the Solomons, The Courier-Mail

Court orders U.S. to repay all $5.3 billion in softwood duties - Ruling won't affect newly implemented softwood settlement, Vancouver Sun
Manufacturing Dubreuilville's wood wastes, Northern Ontario Business News
£90,000 to spend on ancient woodland restoration - Project aims to give the medieval oak woods at Castle Howard a fresh lease of life, Malton Today: News
Scandal hits Forestry Commission Over Contentious granting of concession - Investigations Committee constituted, Ghanaian Chronicle

Take care of sapling , Central Chronicle
Deforestation must be addressed in earnest and extensive reforestation should be implemented so that excess rainwater can be absorbed and thus mitigate the problem of flooding, Bangkok Post
No EIA, but rape of forest reserve begins, New Straits Times - Malaysia
NORTHERN REGION (Region 1):
Montana and Northern Idaho
Helena Forest seeks comments on land swap, Helena Independent Record
Group claims Missouri Breaks road is public - Landowner: Access denied only to abusive users or when road was too wet, Billings Gazette
Risch's roadless forest plan still in play - Many questions, some answers on writing rules for U.S. forests, Spokesman Review



ROCKY MOUNTAIN REGION (Region 2):
Colorado, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Wyoming
Forest Service Public Workshops Scheduled In The Black Hills - Series of workshops will focus on future of motorized travel, Black Hills National Forest
Resource Advisory Committee Funds Projects In Custer County - Forest thinning and fuel-reduction project among the list, Black Hills National Forest

Medicine Bow National Forest plans day-use fee for new Rail-Trail trailheads, Star-Tribune
Wolf Creek Ski Area opens this weekend wih 57 inches - Wolf Creek is celebrating 30 years of free Cross Country skiing, Stellar Resorts

Manti-LaSal: Wedding of the Forest - The bride, the LaSal Forest, Glenn Casamassa, Emery County Progress
Beetles alone may not raise fire threat - Plenty of other factors - such as weather and dead vegetation - play role in fuel wildfires, Vail Daily News

Beetle on the rise, Black Hills Pioneer
Alternative energy proponents push piñon pellets - Rep. Salazar touts resource at Avon Hotel in Silverton, Durango Herald
West could see gas, oil boom over 20 years - Possibility of 119,000 new wells worries advocacy group, Rocky Mountain News
Pawnee NF: Prairie-dog ruling has both sides mad - Forest Service adopts unpopular middle ground. Landowners near the Pawnee grassland in northeastern Colorado vow to appeal, Denver Post
Elk nearly wiped out in early 1900s - By 1910, most of Colorado's elk lived between Gunnison and White rivers, Glenwood Springs Post Independent
Water district unveils future plans - Forest Service conducting environmental impact statement, The Mountain Mail
SOUTHWESTERN REGION (Region 3):
Arizona and New Mexico
State Asked to Protect Pristine Waters - Roadless National Forest Streams Nominated for Outstanding National Resource Waters, Forest Guardians
First Petition to Nominate Roadless Forest Streams As Outstanding National Resource Waters Submitted - Forest Guardians and partners filed a formal petition asking the New Mexico Water Quality Control Commission to protect some of the state's cleanest waters that flow from its roadless national forests, Forest Guardians
The Valles Caldera, Western Horseman
Controlled burns now under way, Alamogordo Daily News

Council President Heinrich Pushes Protection of Hawkwatch Land in the Sandia Mountains - Wildlife corridor connects Cibola NF, City of Albuquerque

Vast land, vast protection, Albuquerque Tribune commentary

INTERMOUNTAIN REGION (Region 4):
Southern Idaho, Nevada, Utah, and SW Wyoming
BLM Firefighter Sentenced for wildfire arson on Humboldt-Toiyabe NF, Albuquerque Journal [scroll down]
Hurricane Man Provides Free Firewood, Hurricane Valley Journal

Reservoir Hogs, Salt Lake City Weekly

Greens miffed at guv's plan - Roadless forests: Huntsman is scheduled to submit a petition to the federal government next month, Salt Lake Tribune
Groups: Halt elk test-and-slaughter, Jackson Hole Star-Tribune

PACIFIC SOUTHWEST (Region 5): California
The wildfire victims, The Seattle Times
Movement has wrong focus, Chico Enterprise-Record letter
Shasta-Trinity NF: Recovery effort begins at Bar Complex - Fires still not completely contained as straw is dropped to replace vegetation, Redding Record Searchlight
Professors question forestry expert's credentials - Thomas Bonnicksen says UC Davis offered him visiting professorship, but officials say he never worked at the university, California Aggie

Too many penny pines add up, Central Valley Business Times
Maben's Madness?, Tehachapi News

Wilderness areas get federal status - Bush signs bill protecting more than 273,000 acres, including Black Butte River, Lost Coast, Santa Rosa Press Democrat
Critics decry failure to replant, Sacramento Bee at Star Tribune
Saving Sequoia - Thinning is the U.S. Forest Service's answer to overgrowth that resulted from years of fighting smaller fires, but large-scale logging is seen by some as controversial and costly, Bakersfield Californian
Thinning forests cuts tricky dilemma for politicians, environmentalists, foresters and timber companies - Legislators work to reinstate logging projects, ignoring environmental warnings, Bakersfield Californian
Logging Proponent's Credentials Questioned - Emeritus professor Bonnicksen has been highly visible in the push to log on federal land. He has a contract with a timber industry foundation, Los Angeles Times
The last Sierra shepherds, Nevada Appeal News

North Coast Acreage Protected, Los Angeles Times
PACIFIC NORTHWEST (Region 6):
Oregon and Washington
Volume up, protests down- Umpqua NF timber sales - New harvest rules, regulations help decrease forest controversy and lawsuits, The News-Review
Last Bite of the Biscuit - As the controversial post-fire logging project comes to an end, a look at the winners and losers, Eugene Weekly
Corvallis consultant spreading the word about 'hurricane pine' - Company seeking uses of the wood, stained blue by Gulf Coast fungus, Corvallis Gazette-Times

Risks don't deter 'hotshot' captain, Yreka's Siskiyou Daily News
Foliage of fire, Columbian

Camp Sealth logs diseased trees, Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber

The Post-Burning Question: Log It or Leave It? - Some say timber on charred Oregon land is essential to rebirth, but U.S. is allowing salvage, Los Angeles Times
The Costs Of Salvage Logging, Hartford Courant editorial
Biofuels shaving sawdust supplies - Biomass burning causes shortage of wood scrap for fiberboard mills, mills lose jobs - Ethanol "biorefinery" coming, Eugene Register-Guard
SOUTHERN REGION (Region 8):
Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.
Caretakers of the forests, The Daily News, Jacksonville NC
Corvallis consultant spreading the word about 'hurricane pine' - Company seeking uses of the wood, stained blue by Gulf Coast fungus, Corvallis Gazette-Times



U.S. Moves to Protect Longleaf Pine Forests, Environment News Service [$]
State of our Forests - Loss of trees threatens Bay - Chesapeake Bay watershed losing forest to development at a steady clip, report says, Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star
EASTERN REGION (Region 9):
Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, Maine, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wisconsin
Greylock roads to cost $18.9M, North Adams Transcript
Douglas helped keep forest open, Rutland Herald letter
A Resource as Vital as a Tree - Great care should be exercised dealing with Buffalo's storm-damaged urban forest, UB NewsCenter

Thanks to Douglas on wilderness, Burlington Free Press op-ed
Hiawatha NF ATV maps ready, The Mining Journal

Red, blue and Green, Boston Globe editorial
George Washington may have had a favorite tree, but its days are finally over - Giant ancient ash comes down in Morris Township because the owner's patio was uneven, Daily Record
USFS responds to timber industry crisis, Herald-Review - Grand Rapids, Minnesota
Ohio: City To Cut Down 1,800 Trees To Prevent Insect Invasion - 5-Year Program To Remove, Replace Trees To Cost $200,000, NewsNet5
In the great outdoors, Escanaba Daily Press
Katahdin lake: at what cost?, Bangor Daily News

Stemming Complaints Over Pruning: AEP tries new way to keep trees from lines - Use of limb-stunting chemical worries some owners, The Columbus Dispatch
Foliage at its peak, right at home, The Providence Journal
Forest Stewardship Contracting Sparking Interest - Trees-for-services Trade Has Potential To Generate Jobs, New Community Revenue, St. Ignace News [$]

National and international news about forests, the Forest Service, public lands and natural resource management. Brought to you by ex-FS employee Mark Garland and Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics.

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